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In Dialogue: Smithsonian Objects and Social Justice
• March 5, 2021
Thursday, March 11, 5 p.m. Online via Zoom Heighten your civic awareness through conversations about art, history and material culture. Each month, educators from the National Portrait Gallery will […]
Weekly Arts Round Up, January 7, 2021
• January 7, 2021
Classes are being offered by the Washington School of Ballet, Hinckley Pottery and others. Also available: virtual visits to the Tudor Place garden, Asian temples and Coney Island.
Weekly Arts Round Up, November 12, 2020
• November 12, 2020
On Friday and Saturday, the Udvar-Hazy Center will celebrate the International Space Station. Also, galleries are about to close and reopen in the National Gallery’s West Building.
Weekly Arts Round Up, October 15, 2020
• October 15, 2020
The 2020 Smithsonian Food History Weekend and a panel tomorrow on the legacy of John Lewis will take place online. In person, you can visit the Kreeger Museum and, soon, Planet Word.
Visual Arts Preview: Social Distancing Edition
• September 17, 2020
This will be a limited and bittersweet season for the arts, but after six months of pure bitterness, this writer will happily take what he can get. The fall arts […]
Weekly Arts Round Up, September 17, 2020
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More Smithsonian museums reopen tomorrow. From the comfort of your couch, stream Japanese films, hear from Helen Hunt and view treasures from sunken cities of ancient Egypt.
Weekly Arts Round Up, September 10, 2020
• September 10, 2020
Upcoming topics for online learning: Japanese textiles, Russian opera (and tea drinking), naturalist Alexander von Humboldt and painter Miki Hayakawa.
Dance Tribute to Marian Anderson
• February 26, 2020
D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton was the guest of honor at the National Portrait Gallery as the Dana Tai Soon Burgess Dance Company debuted “A Tribute to Marian Anderson” to […]
Downtowner DC February 26, 2020
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PHASE 2 OF WHARF DEVELOPMENT UNDERWAY The second phase of the Wharf development in Southwest D.C. is proceeding, adding new residences, retail and amenities to the waterfront neighborhood. Opened in […]
Spring Arts Preview: Visual Arts
• February 25, 2020
Here are some of the D.C. art museum exhibitions that Georgetown visual arts writer Ari Post is most looking forward to this spring.
